Olympic Medal Counts
Tue, 08/19/2008 - 20:00 — Jinghao
What is an Olympic gold worth to you? Specifically, how many bronze or silver medals would you give up for a single gold? I made this script which downloads data from Wikipedia and calculates the equivalent gold medals. Now people can stop complaining about how China ranks countries by number of gold medals and the United States ranks countries by total medals.
Notes: (1) the cache is updated hourly, so this may not reflect the most recent competitions; (2) the default values are based on relative densities of the three metals. Enjoy.
Raw data and equivalents in gold:- CHN has 51 gold medals, 21 silver medals and 28 bronze medals, the equivalent of 74 gold medals.
- USA has 36 gold medals, 38 silver medals and 36 bronze medals, the equivalent of 72 gold medals.
Therefore, the winner between the two is CHN
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Nice script, but...
You'll go to any lengths to prove your point, won't you? :P To be fair, I support China in the Olympics, as well as India, Oman and the Philippines, so I think all of them combined will probably pwn the US any day. Go Chindomanes!
Great :) India's 1 gold no
Great :) India's 1 gold no matter what weight you put on the silver and bronze (positive, please)
How did you know...
... that I was trying negative values? >_>"
Because that's the only way
Because that's the only way India can beat anyone with more medals than it :P
Fail. T_T
Oh well. I'm waiting for when India hosts the Olympics, so that we have participants in all sports. This should be sometime in the next two centuries.
When all of civilization
When all of civilization collapses? Well, at least one of your countries (India) is doing better than the other (The Philippines) :P